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Paul Ryan's Path to Prosperity, Episode 2

Paul Ryan and his team have once again done an incredible job explaining his Path to Prosperity. They've set the bar high, and present a strong challenge to Democrats in the Senate.

This may be the most substantive and visually relevant explanations of his plan in existence. It lays things out clearly, going all in and refusing to hide behind demagoguery. Ryan has a plan.

He presents a legislative proposal that would essentially look like a Congressional Health Care System for all Americans. Watch the whole thing, and be sure to pass it around to anyone with questions about the Path to Prosperity.

As passed by the House last month, the National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 2810, contains language that prohibits a new round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). An amendment offered by Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) to strike this section of the bill failed by a vote of 175 to 248.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released its analysis of the President’s Budget Proposal. In collaboration with the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the CBO reviewed the President’s proposals to see what the likely impact would be were they implemented. What it found was a major reduction in spending that would reduce the deficit and promote economic growth.

The passage of the American Health Care Act, H.R. 1628, out of the House of Representatives gives an opportunity for the Republican majority to begin work on a generational opportunity: fundamental tax reform. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) will head to Ohio on Wednesday to begin making the case for tax reform, previewing the next big item on the House Republican agenda.

Ahead of the vote on the omnibus spending bill, FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon released the following statement about the organization's key vote against the Consolidated Appropriations Act, H.R. 244:

On March 16, the Office of Management and Budget released the President’s proposal for a budget for the fiscal year of 2018. In summation, the President’s budget increased funding for all military related departments and entitlements programs and cut everything else. However, among some of his more controversial cuts was the decision to eliminate funding for the “arts.” Funding for programs such as the National Public Radio (NPR), the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), and other “cultural programs” that having received support from the Federal government has been eliminated.

Christopher Jacobs has a great piece up over at The Federalist highlighting how the advanceable, refundable tax credits proposed in House Republican leader's ObamaCare "alternative," the American Health Care Act, might wind up taking a Byrd bath in the Senate. He raises a good argument, but other aspects of the bill may also fall victim to the "Byrd rule."